A"Flood Disaster
Preparedness ISO"has been
proposed to the 4th International Symposium of Flood Defence in Toronto on May 8th, 2008 as well as some
other occasions by the IFI secretariat at ICHARM.

The Flood Disaster Preparedness
Standard is an international standard that any community of any scale is suggested to follow in order to
make it prepared for natural hazards to minimize their negative impacts and lead to quick recovery when they
occur. The standard is not a list of facilities nor equipments to be installed, but rather a list
of institutional procedure that any community commit to follow to assure a positive
spiral be installed into its community management system leading to a continuous improvement in disaster
preparedness. There are already some, although focuses are different: